A review by duanebutcher
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris

3.0

This is a hard book to review. The writing is nothing short of brilliant. The author has just enough self-deprecation to make living with her tolerable even though she is obviously a certified genius. The problem for me was that there just wasn't that much to the story. Two young women riding a bike across parts of Turkey and Central Asia and a very little bit on her young life. I'm not sure riding across China and Tajikistan is really all that heroic (though it is clearly really, really, hard.) Her observations of history and culture are more or less on target but so very fleeting.

Brilliant writing but just not about all that much.